Qin Official

At the top of Yangcheng City, Heifu was walking behind with a few soldiers. In front of him was a middle-aged Tang Fuzi who called himself "Qin Mo". He was about forty, dressed in commoners, but his manners were very elegant. He also had two young men with him. disciple.

One was named Cheng Shang, who was in his thirties and taciturn. He just held a ruler in his hand and visually measured the height of the city wall before going up to the city. When he arrived at the top of the city, he measured the distance between the battlements. The other one is Tang Duo, who is in his twenties and has a wild temperament. He goes up to the city wall and asks questions.

"Tang Master, is this the Yangcheng that you once told us that the giant Meng Sheng defended for Lord Yangcheng?"

Master Tang leaned on the battlements and looked down, and said with emotion: "It was here that the Mohist giant Meng Sheng had a good relationship with Yangcheng Jun of Chu State. The two were teachers, friends, and ministers. Yangcheng Jun even granted him a land. They were all handed over to Meng Sheng, and he destroyed the Jade Huang as a talisman to make him guard this place. Meng Sheng took the Mohist family to make this place a safe place, so all the elite Mohists gathered in Yangcheng."

Another disciple, Cheng Shang, also answered at this time: "Indeed, I measured it with a ruler and a ruler. The walls of Yang City have traces of Mohist city building techniques, and they are taller and thicker than ordinary county walls. It may be that they were built at that time." The Mohist built it.”

Master Tang nodded: "It's a pity that despite this wall, we are still outnumbered. Later, King Yangcheng was implicated in Wu Qi's incident, and he fled to another country. King Jing sent people to take back Yangcheng, but because he did not have the token Jade Huang, Meng He didn't want to open the door if he won. King Jing sent troops to besiege Yangcheng, and Meng Sheng kept his promise to Lord Yangcheng and defended the city. As a result, a total of 180 Mohists died with him..."

Tang Duo sighed in admiration: "It's so majestic..."

Cheng Shang interrupted from the side: "For the sake of his own personal relationship with Lord Yangcheng, how brave is it for Meng Sheng to drag the elite Mohists to die with him?"

Tang Duo retorted: "Cheng Shang, the tycoon Meng Shengxing's righteousness is Mo Zhi. He believes that his relationship with Lord Yangcheng is not shallow. If he does not die, no one will trust Mo Zhi in the future and regard Mo Zhi as his teacher and friend." , I am a minister."

Cheng Shang sneered again: "This is a misinterpretation. The meaning of the Mohist is to be like a young and reckless man, sacrificing his life for the survival of a city, a pool, a king and a prince? The meaning in the Mohist Scripture is clearly to benefit the world. The righteousness! Meng Sheng sacrificed the great righteousness for the sake of the small righteousness. After this incident, the Mohist family declined!"

Tang Duo flushed with anger: "If you can't uphold small righteousness, how can you practice great righteousness? Furthermore, who said that the Mohist family has declined completely? We are not still here now? Meng Sheng passed down Tian Xiangzi, Tian Xiangzi It was passed down to the belly, and the belly then entered the Qin Dynasty, and this is how Qin Mo came to be... It was precisely because it was difficult for the giant Meng Sheng to kill Yangcheng Lord that all the princes believed in Mohism, and the Mohist school became a prominent scholar!"

The two disciples were quarreling there, and Master Tang was a little embarrassed. After asking the two to be quiet, he turned around and cupped his hands towards Hei Fu and said, "Thank you, General Bai, for taking us up to the city to have a look. The disciples are not getting along, which made Bai General laugh."

"How dare you."

Hei Fu returned the favor, because this Tang Master was said to be well-known in Xianyang, but even Li You had to respect him three points, so Hei Fu specially arranged for Hei Fu to take three people to the top of the city.

After listening to the three people's past stories about Mo Zhe, Heifu felt a little bit, and now he said: "Actually, I have been stationed in Yangcheng for two months, but this is the first time I heard about Meng Sheng's incident. The local people have already I forgot about Mo Zhe guarding the city here..."

Mr. Tang disagreed: "The people are forgetful. After all, it was a hundred and fifty years ago, six or seven generations ago..."

"Is it because it's been too long?"

Heifu smiled, shook his head and said: "Otherwise, during the autumn harvest last month, when I was chatting with the old farmers in the fields, I learned that two hundred years ago, a certain Yangcheng Lord's governor built a canal for the people locally. The canal is still in use, irrigating dozens of hectares of land. The people also built a small temple for the chief of the city and worshiped it every year. I dare to ask you, why can the people remember the chief of the small city more than two hundred years ago, but forget it? The Mohist tycoon from more than a hundred years ago?"

"It's not that Meng Sheng's righteousness is not as good as that of the governor of that city, but because Meng Sheng's righteousness has never benefited the local people, so even though more than a hundred people died, he became famous all over the world and made the princes choke. But it won’t leave a deep impression on the local people, and at most two or three generations will forget about it.”

Tang Duo was a little unhappy, but Cheng Shang nodded in agreement: "General Bai is right. This is what I mean by the difference between small righteousness and great righteousness."

Mrs. Tang Zixiao looked at Hei Fu with interest, and began to chat with him instead of treating him as a backdrop. As the two chatted, Hei Fu realized that Mr. Tang was also in the army when Wang Bi broke the beam.

"Fortunately, thanks to Mr. Zheng Guo's dam water attack, the beam was broken without Qin Mo's participation."

Listening to Mr. Tang's tone, he didn't seem to like war, which made Heifu even more curious. He finally couldn't hold it back and asked: "Mr. Tang, I have also heard of the name of the Mohist family, but I only know that Mohists advocate universal love and non-aggression." , to help the weak and defend the strong, but I never thought that you would appear in the Qin army..."

Heifu really didn't expect that the Mo family would become allies of the "violent Qin". If they were on the opposite side of the Qin army, there would be nothing surprising.

The question was pointed and Mr. Tang didn't know how to answer it for a while. At this time, Cheng Shang answered: "The generals are really ignorant. The kind of Mohist you are talking about is the Chu Mohist who inherited Meng Sheng's ambition. This group of people pride themselves on being moral, like to be ascetic people, and perform chivalrous acts as knights. They oppose wars between countries and believe that wars are unjust. Such Mohists have disappeared for many years."

While talking, he glanced at his junior brother Tang Duo.

"In addition, there is Qi Mo. This sect focuses on academic debates. They travel to various countries and lobby the kings not to annex land. There are only one or two such Mo scholars left. They hide in Qi State and study useless debates every day. The art is gone."

After Cheng Shang explained, Hei Fu realized that Qin Mo was one of the three schools of Mohism in the world. It had taken root in Qin for more than a hundred years and had contributed a lot to the rise of Qin. However, he did not say anything about Qin Mo. How is his philosophy different from that of Chu Mo and Qi Mo?

Now that the Legalists are in power in the Qin State, Qin Mo is gradually marginalized, but still has some influence. They have provided a lot of help to the Qin State's military production. In the event of a big war, the general will even take a few with him to provide support. Come up with siege strategies and renovate complex siege equipment.

"So that's it. I was ignorant and abrupt."

Heifu smiled and held his hands in apology. The three Qin Mo men met him for the first time and did not want to say too much, so they immediately climbed off the city wall.

That night, Mr. Tang and Tang Duo said goodbye to Li You. They were going to continue to follow the Qin army to Shangcai. Cheng Shang, who usually had a stinky face, was left behind. He was ordered to follow Li You's orders and encountered the siege. You can also provide some suggestions.

In the impression, Mo Zhe, who was famous for defending the city, now took the initiative to go to the battlefield and make suggestions for the Qin army attacking the city. This made Heifu feel a little ridiculous.

But before he could think too much, on the third day after Qin Mo arrived in Yangcheng, another military order was issued. General Li Xin ordered the five thousand Qin troops in Yangcheng to set off immediately!

After restoring his morale, Li You ordered the soldiers of Nanjun to mobilize their troops. They had been preparing for a long time. Now as soon as the military order came, he immediately summoned five military officers from the left, middle, right and front. Only 500 people were left to defend the city, and another 500 people were with him. The civilian men recruited from the local area escorted the baggage and food supplies together, and the remaining four thousand people broke out of camp and set off early the next morning!

Heifu and the others, as close-quarters personal guards, naturally had to surround Captain Li You. Thousands of people streamed southward along the gurgling Yingshui River, and their troops pointed directly at Chuguodun County, a hundred miles away...

Heifu knew that this war had officially begun!